Quotes by Donna Tartt

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. (Donna Tartt)

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work. (Donna Tartt)

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. (Donna Tartt)

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children--children lie all the time. (Donna Tartt)

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. (Donna Tartt)

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. (Donna Tartt)

I really do work in solitude. (Donna Tartt)

I think its hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. (Donna Tartt)

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. (Donna Tartt)

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. (Donna Tartt)